Within CROP CIS, Geoland2 Global Crop Monitoring module Institute of Geodesy and Cartography has been conducted works related to inter-comparison of various methods for estimating crop acreages and yields in global / regional scale, which are based on multi-temporal remote sensing derived information.

The objectives of the proposal is to develop the method to deliver innovative information on wetlands, forest and crops and their biomass and moisture conditions with high spatial and temporal resolution of ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 microwave data with different polarization and incidence angle. The optical data from Sentinel-2 will be added and the synergy of information will be designed in order to depict the soil - vegetation features. The vegetation biomass, density, height, soil moisture, vegetation moisture, LAI, APAR, chlorophyll will be measured at the ground during the satellite overpass.

Analysis of snow coverage in country or regional scale is the important element needed for evaluation of crop development conditions. Range and period of covering agricultural areas with snow implies conditions of surviving winter cereals through winter time, as well as it determines water capacity of soils at the beginning of growing season, influencing acceleration or delay in crop development.